Todd Soisson
IT VP, Business Experience

About the Speaker:

Todd is a global technology leader with over 30 years of delivery experience. He is currently responsible for Quality Services and Intelligent Automation across the North America businesses of the Tokio Marine Group where he is also a Company Brand Ambassador, Business Analysis Practice Lead, and Executive Sponsor of the IT Staff Action Committee. Todd helped incubate “TMNAS Women in IT” as their first Executive Sponsor and has held seats on numerous internal steering committees including DevOps, Security, Service Now, and Agile Task Force. He serves as a mentor for TMNAS in their formal program and volunteers in the same capacity for Great Minds in STEM. Along with being named a 2019 CIO Executive Council’s “Fifty Ones To Watch”, Todd is an Advisory Board Member for OpenText VP of Applications and a guest speaker at industry events focusing on Performance Testing & Test Automation Frameworks.

Chris Trimper
Enterprise QA Automation Architect

About the Speaker:

Chris has been involved in software testing for over 16 years, dedicating most of that time to adding efficiencies in the testing process through functional test automation. He is currently the Test Automation Architect for his QA team at Independent Health, leveraging various tools and techniques for functional automation and performance testing. He has had the opportunity to speak at various conferences on software testing and monitoring aspects. Over the past few years, he has begun to adopt forms of AI in the toolbox of efficiencies in testing.

Phil Rayment
Vice President, North America
ADM Enterprise and Federal Sales

About the Speaker:

Reporting to Tom Ament, SVP, World Wide Go-to-market, Phil is accountable for the North America Application Delivery Management business, inclusive of Cloud, License, Subscription and renewal business for OpenText.  Phil’s purview is inclusive of both the largest enterprise accounts in the U.S. as well as the U.S. Federal secure and civilian agency business. 

In prior roles, Phil has led the channel and alliance field organization which included distribution, Managed Service Providers, and high-value solution partnerships in the Americas.  He was accountable for all indirect revenue, partner programs and benefits across all product groups including Cyber, ADM, IT Operations Management and Information Management.  Additionally, Phil’s Mid-market direct sales organization was named the top CMT within the North America region for FY22 on the heels of significant growth YoY, protection of the vast install base, as well as net new logo acquisition. 

Phil has over 25 years of direct sales, channel sales and sales leadership experience. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 2006 as part of HP's acquisition of Mercury Interactive; and has had successive leadership roles throughout his tenure within Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, Micro Focus and now OpenText.

Phil holds a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire and currently resides in Georgetown, Washington DC; while also enjoying winter and summer periods at his cabin on Lake Winnipesaukee, in Meredith NH.  Phil has 3 adult children all residing in the Boston area. 

Udi Weinberg
Director of Product Management
Lifecycle and Portfolio Management

About the Speaker:

Udi is a director of product management with over 20 years of experience in enterprise software development, quality assurance and IT management.

After spending several years working for startup companies Udi joined Mercury Interactive which later became HP/HPE, Micro Focus and now Opentext. Udi served in variety of roles within the R&D organization including development manager and QA Director for the entire Application Delivery Management (ADM) organization, overseeing all functional, automation, performance and security testing activities in the organization.  

After joining the Product Management group, Udi led ALM/Quality Center for several years and now he is leading the entire line of business for lifecycle and portfolio management which includes ALM Octane, ALM/QC, Project and Portfolio Management (PPM), Integration hub (MF Connect) and the cloud based ValueEdge platform.

Ayal Cohen
Director, Product Management
Functional Testing

About the Speaker:

With over 20 years experience in the world of test automation, Ayal has seen it all. Ayal Cohen, Director for OpenText Functional Testing solutions leads the next evolution for Automated Functional Testing. Ayal started as a QA engineer for WinRunner and QuickTest Professional and has seen how the industry has changed over the last twenty years. Ayal has helped hundreds of customers build their test automation suites and improve their automation ROI.

Bill Weinberg
WW Leader of Presales & Sales Development Application Delivery Management

About the Speaker:

Bill leads the presales organization for the ADM business within OpenText.  The team consists of presales engineers, solution consultants and enterprise architects all focused on helping our customers capitalize on the value of the OpenText portfolio while designing solutions based around solving their pain points.  Bill has over 25 years of expertise using similar solutions as an end customer, implementing enterprise technologies as a delivery partner, and helping customers realize the value they can receive through our solutions.

John Falk
Application Delivery Pre-sales Manager

About the Speaker:

John Falk is an ADM Presale Manager with OpenText Software and is a DevOps specialist.  He is responsible for managing a team of highly skill solutions architects and working with clients to help with the adoption of the OpenText ADM portfolio, specifically with regards to enterprise agile, DevOps, and VSM.  Previously he has enjoyed a 20+ year career in corporate IT, specializing in application development, global network infrastructure, network security, and IT operations. John holds a BS in business with an emphasis in technology management from University of Phoenix and is Six Sigma Yellow Belt certified.

Erika Leifker
Senior Solutions Architect

About the Speaker:

Erika Leifker is a Solutions Architect with OpenText.  Her role focuses on gathering and analyzing customer requirements and architecturally implementing solutions involving OpenText’s products and their existing software investments.  She has more than 20 years of IT experience and is highly focused on helping customers accelerate and optimize from strategy to delivery.

Don Jackson
Chief Technologist

About the Speaker:

With over 20 years’ experience in the Application Delivery Management (ADM) space, Don is recognized by colleagues, peers, and ADM professionals for his informative demonstrations, seminars, webinars, videos, and podcasts. His expertise in ADM around SAP solutions and the broader enterprise IT ecosystem, helps him convey to the audience complex topics in a manner that is relatable and easy to understand.

Alan Wendt
Senior Solutions Architect and the Strategy
& Portfolio Practice Lead

About the Speaker:

Alan Wendt is a Senior Solutions Architect and the Strategy & Portfolio Practice Lead for the OpenText North American team with over 20 years’ experience in Project & Portfolio Management.  Alan works with the sales organization, product marketing, and product management teams supporting customers in the Canadian and US regions by sharing the latest capabilities and value our solutions provide to OpenText customers.  Alan is originally from the Midwest and now resides with his family in Austin Texas.  Alan enjoys playing the guitar, learning to paint, camping and fishing with family.

Vincent Friske, PMP
ADM onCloud GTM Security Lead

About the Speaker:

Vincent Friske is an ADM On Cloud Specialist, with over 20 years of experience helping customers evaluate and scope requirements for enterprise cloud solutions. Since joining the company in 2016, he leads discussions about cost of ownership comparisons, On Cloud solution architecture, platform/application security and compliance, and risk assessments with ADM customers considering migration to On Cloud. Vincent is certified Project Management Professional (PMP) since 2004, and Certified Scrum Master (CSM) since 2016.